Welcome to my journey exploring art, In 2010 you also saw me on hikes in wonderful nature. In 2011-13 I did not paint much, but made items using my art. In 2014 I will again try to be a daily art maker.
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I have been interviewed by Bergens Tiende, a large regional newspaper. Click to viewRecently I have also been interviewed by Drangedalsposten and even made it to the frontpage heheheI have been a columnist for a year now and I am asked to continue.

I have worked hard lately to get the Christmas ball together as some of you know and here is what the local paper showed from it. The title says: The Christmas ball, one of the better ones

I have not taken one single puff of a sigarette in 2008 as I did not in 2007 either which is very good.

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

A cold day here today too. Car was frozen and did not want to start. Thick ic eon all windows outdoor as well as indoors. I am waiting for tomorrow to try again because the forecast predicts a bit milder temperatures

Today I managed to get finished the black and white version of my book on lulu.com. "man kan tenke på sa mangt i livets sensommer". I will post links as soon as all dobleschecking is done. It is lal in Norwegian.(=Jeg kommer til å poste linker her på bloggen så snart jeg har fått dobbeltsjekket alt.)

Managed to do the last finishing touches on my book project "Man kan tenke på så mangt i livets sensommer", and will print it out tomorrow as a three part book due to the sizes in binding available.

Also got my shed filled up with more firewood today which is good because the forecast speaks of cold weather coming in. The northern parts of Norway have severe storms and winds today, so I am sure my father and my step family has tied down everything loose.

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Today Christmas Eve is the most important day here in Norway. It is today we open presents and have the major meal. I have had a wonderful time. Food and everything has been as tradition declares it to be here in our home. Only thing missing has been my son but he will come home tomorrow.

Some days ago I painted this painting wondering what was left of the original Christmas and how much was only commercial and things. This year we, my daughter and I, prepared a somewhat less stressful Christmas. Less presents and less food and such. No special Christmas toilet paper and such. It is amazing how much many of us spends on these couple of days.

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Beautiful clear day here tonight. I found this one suitable since we are in the time where we talk about those that followed the star to the stable.

I wish all viewers a as relaxing as possiblebuild up to the holidays. It is amazing what a bit of detergent in the corners can do together with lots of candles LOL.

I got some 100g quality paper today so bit by bit I will be ready to reprint my book projects more properly. I have also gathered quite a few names for professional printing services. As I reread it now I find small flaws that I will corrects but also I am starting to become quite satisfied too :-)))))))).

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Today has been a day of mainly cathing up on sleep and trying to get my body and mind to accept that the insanely hectic period is over. It always takes me a day or two to come down at the end of term.

I showed my book project as well as the dialypainter's book to Magnhild my artist friend today. Bit by bit I get braver and more confident in my work. That feels good.

The best news of all is that from last night on I have become a great aunt. My brother became a grandad to a lovely girl. Guess who will go nuts buying lovely pink clothes in the Janbuary sales hehehe?

Friday, December 19, 2008

The interview is now done. Had quite lovely 2 hours just now in fact. It was very interesting for me to be forced to try to put into words the hows and whys and whats of my journey.

I have just got the simple report binding done on my "prototype" version of my book project. I am very happy with how it is coming along. The next stage is considering more proper printing options as well as trying out better paper etc. Got some very nice encouragement from the journalist on it too. She thought that I ought to read some aloud on a culture evening while showing the painting on a projector. Not quite ready yet but it was a nice confidence boost.

Things are kind of strange just now. After about 6 weeks of running around, suddenly there is nothing on the must-do-now-list. Very strange indeed. :-)I will enjoy life tonight - get my shoulders down and by doing that hopefully get back to sleeping properly again tonight. LOL I think I tell my body too strongly to keep going in stressful times.

It is time to stop and smell the flowers again - at least metaphorically speaking. Maybe I will even visit the florist tomorrow.

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Happy today. Finally we begin to get things together for the Christmas Ball. We have rented another place and it will work so much better. Proper glasses and plates for the dinner instead of plastic and cardboard hehehehe. Planning the seating, heating, airconditioning, kiosk, polognese etc etc is a bit like a jigsaw but now most pieces are lines up. We still do not have a dj so that is a big issue at the moment. The rest is coming together nicely. The owner of the local grocery store which we use will sponsor the gifts for the king and queen and such competitions and that was such a nice gesture that it really made my day. new meeting with the student council first thing tomorrow.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

It is so cold here today - about -15C and I find it hard to stay motivated these days - my bear genes kick in and I want to hibernate beneath the duvet. It is the final days of getting everything wrapped up for the end of term and it is so normal LOL if we did not all feel totally washed out then neither teachers or students have done their very best and given it our all. hehehe. Right now I am hoping for some motivation to come gliding through the air. This far tonight all I have got has been spam ;-). Sorry about the moaning. I am very positive about 2009 by the way - I only need the Xmas holidays first.

Poor daughter had her second exam today too. Only one more to go now this year.

When I was young one toy was very popular. Here in Norway they were called rocking rings because you kind of twisted to get that ring swinging round and round your waist. The big things was to be able to do hold it up for as many twirls as possible or make it go up and down - all without letting it drop to the floor. I though it was a cool visual idea to have today's owl do that with her pearls. If anyone knows the English term for this toy I would love to hear it.

Owl VII Rocking,

ink on paper approx

13x17cm

$25

p&p is FREE

As for the second day of the exhibition, we had a lovely time but most of our visitors deserted us this day too - probably due to a combination of V-cup skiing on tv + handball andit being very cold about 12 (=53F) to15 degrees Celcius below 0 and slippery roads.

Well well, I will get an inerview in the local paper and who knows what that might lead to.

Saturday, December 06, 2008

I have sold 3 works this far this weekend so I am happy. Also who knows what will happen tomorrow. Today we nearly had no visitors at all - literary speaking. We had managed to be open exactly when everyone were watching V-cup i skiing which of course is something major here in Norway.

Owl V - Considering a snack,ink on paper ca13x17cmSOLD

Weather was brilliant and nature shows up in its most winter beautiful.

First panel of my display.

Second panel of my work. This and the one next to it is where my 6 paintings in a series originally went but after seeing how close people were to the paintings we dicided to move they to the wall so that people would see them from a proper distance.

Working like crazy here and :-) getting things done. Well started on gradeing ESL end of term papers, work on my book is progressing according to plan, house is fairly clean and with advent lights in vindows. Religions test for class is ready for tomorrows substitute teacher when I am away on a course on helping students improve their reading skills.

Today's posting is one I have decided to use in the front of my book as an invite to enter the book. I have not desided whether to colour it or not yet.

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About Me

I am a teacher who has been on a journey into art and writing the last years and I do not know where my muse will take me, last summer it saw me cutting into marble. You can find much of my work on the Daily Painters Gallery and my books on lulu.com. I’m on facebook too.
My works are in private collections worldwide.
I have attended classes and workshops in Norway and UK but have no degree in art. Most of all I am a self studying artist who spends many hours every week practicing and studying art and art techniques.